Tag: Technology
Social Security whistleblower who claims DOGE mishandled Americans’ sensitive data resigns from post
WASHINGTON – A Social Security official who has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging the Department of Government Efficiency officials mishandled Americans' sensitive information says...
Is AI lying? (And other reader questions, answered.)
For the last few years, we’ve been asking Future Perfect newsletter readers what their biggest questions are. And while we usually answer privately, we...
Watch Our Livestream Replay: Back to School in the Age of AI
Everyone has a stake in how tech is shaping education today. From the tech moguls and venture capitalists who are starting “microschools” and building...
Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World
And that requires swallowing our pride here, right? Like we actually need to learn from China, even though US politicians don’t want to admit...
I’m rooting for female founders’ comebacks. And for the end of branding women, from girlboss to tradwife and all the way down
It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time when the term “girlboss” was aspirational. I was a rising young tech executive at...
Duolingo is facing an existential crisis as Google Translate rolls out features to tutor users—and even handle live translation as a bonus
Google launched new features for Google Translate that will help users learn a new language with the help of AI. The new features take...
Lawyers for parents who claim ChatGPT encouraged their son to kill himself say they will prove OpenAI rushed its chatbot to market to pocket billions
The family of 16-year-old Adam Raine is suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for wrongful death, alleging the company’s popular AI chatbot ChatGPT...
Parents suing OpenAI and Sam AItman allege ChatGPT coached their 16-year-old into taking his own life
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A study of how three popular artificial intelligence chatbots respond to queries about suicide found that they generally avoid answering...
Coinbase CEO urged engineers to use AI—then shocked them by firing those who wouldn’t: ‘I went rogue’
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is so serious about AI, he’s not afraid to lose employees over it.
When Coinbase, the biggest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, acquired...
Millions of Gen Zers are jobless—and unemployment is mainly affecting men
Although Gen Z men and women face the same labor market hurdles after college graduation, young male professionals have continued to be unemployed at...
